Official Blumhouse Halloween Thread

[MartyMcFly]

If my memory serves, didn't Carpenter originally wanted Halloween to be like a series/anthology, not focusing on Michael strictly. But that never panned out obviously.

I liked Halloween 4 more so because of nostalgia, but that Curse of Thorn storyline

He did. He wanted them to all be like Halloween 3 in the sense of just following different stories based around Halloween. But the box office receipts said otherwise

 

[Box Cutta]

I think it'll work for this tho for real. They need to restore some purity to the series in the sense of making Michael a shape again. And getting rid of the whole Laurie thing

I feel you on the idea of purity, what I'm saying though is that the *purest* thing to do would be to just disregard continuity entirely, and just make a Michael Myers killing teens movie without trying to include any of the past stuff, and without any real "origin". I mean hell..basically just the first movie again.

I guess we're saying pretty much the same thing.

I definitely fukks with him being "the shape"...which is why this death row thing feels off to me. I prefer him as a more supernatural figure.

Never forget

I feel like Busta damn near single-handedly killed that whole "Rappers getting major roles in movies" thing....

 

[Tommy Fits]

Just wondering if I'm the only one that kinda liked the thorn storyline, it was fukkery at its best

 

[MartyMcFly]

Just wondering if I'm the only one that kinda liked the thorn storyline, it was fukkery at its best

I got the producers cut coming in the mail next week so I'll give my full opinion on all of that then. The blu ray is dropping for $7 on Amazon next Tuesday

 

[MartyMcFly]

Yeah so this flick isn't happening. Dimension lost the rights so Miramax is shopping the franchise around now and they cut loose the director and writer in hopes of getting rid of anything associated with dimension

Halloween Returns Cancelled as Dimension Loses Franchise Rights - ComingSoon.net

 

[Alfred0Santana]

The alternate ending was Arkin the convict dipping out of the house and never coming back even after seeing the little girl in the window

 

[Lootpack]

Yeah so this flick isn't happening. Dimension lost the rights so Miramax is shopping the franchise around now and they cut loose the director and writer in hopes of getting rid of anything associated with dimension

Halloween Returns Cancelled as Dimension Loses Franchise Rights - ComingSoon.net

Kinda so-so on this. I enjoyed H20, but maybe it's for the best.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Kinda so-so on this. I enjoyed H20, but maybe it's for the best.

Well, they gotta do what they gotta do. They've been in a mess since the reboot so they gotta do something to wipe the slate clean as it were

 

[scarlxrd]

Yeah so this flick isn't happening. Dimension lost the rights so Miramax is shopping the franchise around now and they cut loose the director and writer in hopes of getting rid of anything associated with dimension

Halloween Returns Cancelled as Dimension Loses Franchise Rights - ComingSoon.net

Spoiler

:dshrug::watermelonesha:

 

[Deltron]

damn

 

[MartyMcFly]

damn

man who knows how long it'll be before we another halloween movie. Jason is in stasis, Freddy is in limbo and Michael is finding a studio

 

[satam55]

Yeah so this flick isn't happening. Dimension lost the rights so Miramax is shopping the franchise around now and they cut loose the director and writer in hopes of getting rid of anything associated with dimension

Halloween Returns Cancelled as Dimension Loses Franchise Rights - ComingSoon.net

Aren't Miramax & Dimension Films corporate siblings though?

 

[Deltron]

This one actually sounded like it had some potential too.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Aren't Miramax & Dimension Films corporate siblings though?

Apparently not. I thought they were but the Weinstein's, once they left Miramax, bought Dimension and partnered it with the Weinstein Company, so Miramax isn't connected to them anymore

 

[EzekelRAGE]

Source

This will be a new version, one that fixes what Carpenter disliked about Rob Zombie's remake: "Michael Myers is not a character," Carpenter said at an event announcing the deal. "He's not a person. He's a force of nature. He's one part human and one part supernatural."

Jason Blum says that, like the original, this Halloween will be lower budget in the Blumhouse mold. He said that if you get to $15 million you start losing creative battles for budget battles, that you have to explain everything.

Blum figures they will hire a director with some experience but the deal is so new no one knows who that could be. The goal is to have the film out at Halloween 2017.

The general plan sounds promising. Carpenter laid it out:

"Be true to the original spirit of the movie. Don't get carried away. Tell a simple story. Tell a scary story."